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Recording tips and tricks to opitimize tone and get the sound in your head on tracks, Live PA, as well as knowledge sharing of wood, strings,hardware, anything that contributes to the ever elusive tone.

frankly no real preference. i did use elixirs for some time and really loved them - smooth touch, broken-in tone and long life. when the time came to rebuy some, i looked at the price tag again and thought well that's a bit too much right now. have stayed with standard roundwounds ever since.

NICKEL-Rounds are good. I used to use only flats, but have been using Markley Nickel rounds which came on a Lakland Skyline 44-02 for a Rock project.(I couldn't see Cheap Sunglasses with flats)Suprisingly, I like them. Also like DR Nickel Lo-Riders and have a set of Nickel Dunlops I am anxious to try.

I play a P-bass...rosewood board, alder body. I love Rotosound Swingbass 66s on my P-bass more than any other string and I've tried a ton of different strings over the years. A fairly close 2nd would be the S.I.T. Power Wounds. Both of these strings give me a nice midrangey vibe that isn't too harsh on top. I've had T.I. Jazz Flats on my fretless for a long time and that works.

My favorite acoustic guitar strings are Jon Pearse..... so I noticed that Pearse now sells a nickel wound bass string and Juststrings.com had them for cheep (like 15 bucks) so i bought a couple of sets........great sound and reasonably flexible. i have em on the blue dali bass and they're excellent sounding strings for cheep money. They're no DR, but good for the money